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STATEMENT OF A SSETS. $1,525,949 68, Janunry lot, 7 53.5 I, agreeably do anJ c 4 OF ASSEMBLY, BEING First Mmtgazes, ampty securril, $1,300;284 48 Real Estate (present value $llO, - 000) cost. TeM por ry Loans, nn ample Cola ra I See rtt PQ. 130.774 20 Stock.; (present v dine ;7•70,191) cost. 63 085 50 ,065 57 Cabh, 50 51,5'25 949 OR I'UTIT A (1111.1mrn:DINSURANGES Wade on every description of property, in TOWN AND COUNTRY, at rates as h.w as are consimtant with suctiroyf Since their incorporation, a period oe twenty-four years. they have paid over thre millions dollars Loss ny FIRE, thereby af fording evidence of the advantage of Insur ance. as the ability and disposition to meet with prutnptness all Directors: Cl.at les N. Mocker, Mord. D. T,ewis. Tobias It'agner, Adnlp. E Boric, Samuel Grant, David S. Brown, Jacob B. Smith, Morris Patterson, Lieo, W. Inch:Ards. Isaac I.en, AILM:ti N r eside t LK.; G. B rKr.ll, Se err !aril • s ti!.erilierf , are• the appointed .:Iceots of the above mentioned Imstitution, nml are now prepared to make insurances e+•eiV desc:ietion of property, at the lote cat A. L. 1117117. Alkn!nwn. C. P. PI,I :11, tlrlehF r». Allcntowti, Oct. V-,5'2. 11- 1 y Clearlcs *Tiesxrpi, 11:471:11 and CLOCK -t:24-,- 3 . 1.1 AT, A' .1 ...V D " - ' 2-- ,k .. ,? XEIV E L E 11, t;) 4.1 r, : N 0.2 H :3 Fast amilton ittl., f t ( F .....7g opposite the German Reformed Church, EN ALLENTOWN, PENN., Hereby informs the public thatite has, a few days Hillee returned from Nev York with a large variety of coeds in his line of business; Which he will sell, wholesale and retail, as here as they ran be purchased in any of the cities: flis stock consists in part of ) Cloclis,Tintopi,,cus,C;eld, ...._ Silver and . Common Wil L. . go tTh i: Cites, of every size, pattern, 1 9 _ 4 .. 3) quality and • price ; IT~.il- iil - '\,,• 407, A4. eons, Accordeons, 3.lusical 4,1i4x,,z . !,7 Boxes, Plows rind rites, Vi t a `. 4 .4.t,' of various qualities ; Spy' ~:1 7 „,,„. , ,„„ glasses, Pocket Compasses; and gold, silver, steel and brass Spectacles, in every variety ; Silver Table and Tea Spoons ; gold, silver and common Pencils ; Pens, B.rcast•pins, Ear•-rings and Finger rings, in great varie ty ; gold and common Wdalions ; gold, sil ver, steel and brass NVEitch, Chains, Seals and Keys, of all styles—and all other arti cles that belong to the Jewelry business. Call and judge (or yourselves. Ile can assure the public that his stock contains a larger and more valuable variety of goods than all the Jewelry establishments in Le high county. rirßepairing done as usual—and he war . rants his work one year. • He is thankful fur past favors, and hopes for a continuance. Allentown, October 19. 4-6 tn - Strau Goods--Spring 1854, The Subscribe rs are now prepared to ex hibit at their. • SPLENDID NEW ESTATILISIIMENT, just completed, on the site of their former stand, No. 41 South Second Street, Philadelphia, an entire new and beautiful Stock of Straw, Fancy and Silk Bonnets and Plato, n ow . ers, &c.; and Panama, Palm and Suinmer Hats for Gentlemen, which our old patrons, Merchants and Milliners generally, are in vited to examine, confidently promising them in extent, in variety, in novelty, and to styles a stock unequalled. arOrders carefully and promptly exe cuted. THOMAS WHITE & CO. Phila. March 16 poetical Department. There's Work Enough To Do The black bird early leaves its nest To meet the smiling morn, And gather fragments for its nest From upland, wood and lawn. The busy bee that wings its way 'Mid sweets of varied hue, At ev'ry flower would seem to say— 'There's work enough to do.' The cowslip and the spreading vine, The daisy in the grass, The snowdrop and the eglantine, Preach sermons as we pass. The aunt, within its cavern deep,: Would bid us labor too, And writes upon its tiny heap— There's work enough to do: The planets, tit their Maker's will, Move onward in their cars, For Nature's wheel is never still— Progressive as the stars! The leave; that flutter in the air, And summer's breezes woo, One solemn truth to man declare— , There's work enough to da.' 8'2,139 87 Who then can sleep when all arcund Is active, fresh, and free I Shall man—creation's lord—he found Less busy than the heel Our courts and alleys are the held, If men would search them through, The best, the sweets of laboriyield, And .wark enough to do.' To have a heart for those who weep, The sottish drunkard win; To rescue nll the children, deep In ignorance and sin. To help the poor, the hungry feed, To 'give him coat and shoe, To see [fiat all can write and read— Is 'work enough to do•' The time is short—.the world is wide, And much has to be done; This wandron, earth, and all its pride, vanish with the sun ! The moments Ilv on lightning's wings, And Itie's uncertain ton; WP've rvme to waste on foolish things— Thfli's work enough to do.' illiorctlancouci sclectt ram TWO SPIES. As early as the year 1790. the block-hoo , -e and stockade above the mouth of the Iloek ing was a frontier post for the pioneers of the north-western territory. There Na ture teas in her undisturbed livery of dark and thick forests, interspersed with green and flowering prairies. Then the forest had not heard the sound of the woodman's axe, nor the plow of the husbandman opened the bosom' of the earth. Then those beautiful I prairies waved their golden plume to the God of Nature, and among the most !nxtiri ant of these were those that lie along the Hod:hocking valley, and especially that portion of it on which the town of Lancaster • now stands.. . . . Here the tribes of the North mid West met to counsel, and from this spot led forth the war path in dillerent directions. Upon i one of these occasions when the vnr spirit moved mightily among the sons of Nature, and the tomahawk leaped in its scabbard. and the spirits of their friends who had died in the field of battle visited the warrior in his night visions and called loudly for re venge, it was ascertained at the garrison above the mouth of the Hockhocking river, that the Indians were gathering in great numbers for the purpose of striking a blow , on some post of the frontiers. To meet this crisis, two of the most skilled and indefati gable spies were despached to watch their movements and report. Ikreleland and White, two spirits that never quailed at danger, and ns unconquera ble ns the Lybian lion, in the month of Octo ber, and on one of the balmy days of Indian Summer, took leave of their fellows and moved on through the thick plum and hazel bushes with the noiseless tre ad of pan thers, armed with their unerring and trusty rifles. They continued their march, skirt ing the prairies, till they reached that most remarkable prominence, now known by the name of Mount Pleasant, the western ter mination of which is a perpendicular clifl Of rocks of some hundreds of feet high, and 1 whose summit, from a western view, towers to . the clouds and overlooks the vast plains below. When this point was gained, our two hardy , spies had a position from which they could see every movement of the Indi ans below in the valley. Every day added a new accession of war riors to the company. They witnessed their iexercises of hone racing, running foot La ces, jumping, throwing the tombawk nail (lancing ; the old 'sachems looking on with their Indian indifference, the squaws engag ed in their usual drudgery, and the children engaged in their playful gambols. The ar rival of a new warrior was greeted with ter rible shouts, which, striking the mural face ig-3in ~-,,: _ _, ~- a==i ALLENTOWN, LE HIGI 5....—....__ _ _ of Mount Pleasant, were driven back in the spies quickly matured their plan of defence, various•indentation of the surrounding hills,f and vigorously commenced the attack from producing, reverberations and - echoes as if the very Small back-bone of the mount, the ten thousand fiends were gathered at a um- savages had to advance in single file. and versal levee. Such yells would have struck without any cover. Beyond this neck, the terror to the hearts of those unaccustomed to warrials availed themselves of rocks and Indian revelry. i trees in advancing, but in gassing from one ' To our spies this was but martial music— to the other they must be exposed fora short strains which waked their watchless and time,:xnd a moment's exposure of theirswar newly strunrrtheir veteran courage. From thy forms was enough for the unerring ri their early youth they had always been on fles of the spies. The Indians being entire the frontier, and were well prifctised in all ly ignorant of how many were in ambuscade, the subtlety, craft and cunning of Indian war- were more cautious how they advanced. fare, as well as the ferocity and blood thirs- After bravely maintaining the fig!tt in front Ity nature of these savage warriors. They and keeping the enemy in cheek, they dis i were, therefore, not likely to be ensnared by covered a . now danger threatening, them. 4 their cunning, nor, without a desperate con- The arch foe now made evident prepernt inns 1 flint, to fall victims to their scalping knives to attack them on the (Link, which could Le lor tomahawks. On several occasions small more successfully done by reaching an ism parties left the prairie and ascended the lilted rock lying in one of the ravins on the mount from the e astern s him On these o . c- southern hill side. This paint once gained i canons 'the .Spies would hide in the deep b y t h e I n di ans , they could b r i m , the spios fissures of the rocks on the west, and again under poi n t blank shot of the rifle without 1 leaving, their hiding place when their unin- i the possiblity of escape. Our brave spies 4 vited and welcome visitors had disappeared. : saw the utter hopelessness of their situation \ For food, they depended on jerked vent- ' which nothing could avert but a brave coin- I son and corn bread, with which their knap- pamon and an unerring shot. These they l i sacks were well stored. They dare not ' hal not, but the brave never dispair. With kindle a fire, and the report of one of their this impending fate resting upon them, they' rifles would have lirotieht upon them the continued calm and calculating, awl as un entire force of the Indians. For drink, they wearied as the strongest desire of life and depended on some rain water which stool the rosistance of a numerous foe could pro in the hollows of some of the rocks ; but, in dors. a short time this store was exhausted, and Soon M'Ch'!and saw a tall and swarthy M'Cleland and e W bite must abandon their' fissi re preparing to spring from a covert so 1 enterprise or find a new supply. To accom- near to the fatal reek that a bound or two plish this most hazardous enterprise, M 'Cie- won Id reach it, and all hope of life then was land. was the oldest, resolved to make the I gore. He felt that nil depended on one sin attempt ; and, a nth his trusty rifle in his I gle ad vantaeeous shot ; altho' but an inch Viand, and their two canteens strung across I or two of the. warriors body was exposed, his shoulders, he descended by a circuitous and that at a distance ef virility or a hundred route, to the prairie, skirting the hill on the yards, he resolved to risk all ; he coolly north and under cover of the hazel thickets j raised his rills,and stlidine• the light with his he reached the river, acid turning to a bell I hand. drew a 110;0 so !: 1 / I *., that be f, It con• point of the hill, he found a beautiful spring scions that it wou'd .10 its w ark. He t•meh within a few feet of the river, now known fel the triseer w. li Ii : li es r. Om hasoner by the name Cold Spring e on the farm ol D. I Caine down, but ; , , :se- et •orikiesi, fire, it Talmadge, Esq. Ile filled his canteens, 4 broke his flint hos net t pleees mid oltetat t ii and returned in safety to his watchful coin- I he felt that the lediae must reach the rack pardon. It .e as now determined to have a before lie could adjust another flint, he pro• fresh supply of water every day, and this Leeded to the task with the utmost contpo duty was performed alternately. sore. On one of those occasions, after NV' hite I had tilled his cantecne, heat a few moments I ' watching the limpid element as it came ' gurgling out of the bosom of the earth, i when the light sound of footsteps calla lit his i ' practised ear, and upon turning ;Ironed lie I ' saw two squaws aft w feet from him. Up ei turning round the foot of the hill, the eldest squaw gave one of those fa rreaching whoops peculiar to Ittrliamt. White at mice. cams i 1 1 prehended his perilous situation. If the l alarm should reach the camp or town, he 1 and his ' cempanigh must inevitably pe r li. b._ ' Self preservation compelled hire to inflict a noiseless death on thee squaws, in such a way as. if possible, to leave no truce behind. Ever i rapid in actiou, he spring upon his victim:: with this rapidity and power of a lien, and grasping the threat of each, sprang into the river:' flo thrust the. head-of the eldest under the water. While ma kin. straits , ef forts to suhmerg,e the younger, who, how ever, p ower f u lly resisted hum, and chitin- , the short struggle with this yours.* athletic, I to his nsionishinent site addressed him in his own language, though in almost al tien late sounds. Releasing his hold she informed Lim that ,• she had been 1t prisoner for ten wears. and f was taken from below Wheeling, end that the ladians hail killed all the family, and that her brother and herself were taken pets- 1 oners, but he succeeded on the second night in mt,king his escape. During this naritive. White had drowned the elder squaw, and 1 let.her float ofTwith the Current where it e mild ; probably not be found out soon. Ile directed i the girl to follow him and with his usu a l sp ee d ; and energy pushed for the moritt. They had scarcely gone half way, when they I heard the alarm cry some quarter of a mile.: down the stream. It was supposed some par- tv of Indians, returning from hunting, struck the river just as the body of the squaw floated past. White and the girl succeeded in reach. ing the mount, where M'Cleland had been i no indifferent spectator to the sudden commo• 1 lion among the Indians. The parties of warriors were seen imme diately to strike of in every direction, and White and the girl had scarcely arrived be fore a party of some twenty warriors had reached the eastern activity of the mount, and were cautiously and carefully keeping under the cover. Soon the spies saw the swarthy foes as they glided from tree to' tree, and from rock to rock, till their position wits sur rounded, except on the rest pt.rpend IC li la r side, and all hope of escape ,was cut off. In this perilous condition, nothing was left but to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and this they resolved to do, and 'advised the girl to escape to the Indians,and tell them she had been taken prisoner.. She said "no, death, death to me. in the presencto of my own people is sweeter than captivity and slavery. Furnish me with a gun, and I am able.to show you how I can fight as well as die. This place I leave not. Here my bones shall he bleaching with yours, and should either of you escape, you will carry the tidings of my death to my few relations. Remonstrances proved fruitless. The two 1E121E2 C Diffltsiott of ttocful 31tfonnation, Ciencral ractligoiccralmocmcnt, tzz3c. LE , .., 1. , A. El Casting his eyes towards the fearful point. suddenly he saw the warrior:a retchint every muscle forthe leap ; and with the twility nf a panther lie treacle the spring, but instead of rearhing the rock, he nave a Yell, and his , chilli lady fell and rolled down dui steep nun the valley below. Re had evidently received n death wound Irma snow unknown hand. A hondrt d voices re-echoed from be low the terrible shout. It was evident they had lost a favorite warrior, as well as disappeinted for a time of the inwt imp:.- tans movement. A very few minutes• prov ed thnt the advantrwe aained would be of short duraiiun ; for altendy the spies caw r iiht a glimpse a a tail swarthy warrierraitti.ms.. It advancing to the covert s'crel!‘• CC,,t pi;•ti by his 1, How cninp;mion , Nagy, ton, nit4el; in front was renewed Willi in crowdott" fury. so as to require the incissaut lire of both spies to prevent Lk. India's f rain milling the cydnenro, and in IT short time Al'Cleland saw a warrior making pr,pvra tinns to lap the fall! rock. The leap wr:, male, and the Indian turning a somiuset, his corpse roiled down the hill towards his former companion. Again an unkown anent had interposed in their behalf. The stirowl sacrifice cast di , inity into the ranks of their assailants and just as the son was disapper.r.- ing behind the ltlhs, the foe withdrew to a short list trace, to devi.st! some w t ‘ y m iyi, of attack. This respite came most senswiably to our spies, who had kept their annuli', and bravely maintained the unequal fight (coin nearly the middle of the day. Now. for the first time, was the girl mis sing, and the spies thought that through ter ror she had escaped to twr former captors, or that she had been killed during, Ihe fight; but they were not long left to conjiictnre.— The girl was seen emerging (rain behind a rock and coining to them with a rifle in her hand. During the fight she saw a warrior fall who had advanced some distance before therest, and while some of them changed position, she resolved at once, live or die, to passes herself of his Cr,titi and am munition, and crouching down beneath the under brush, she crawled to the place and succeed ttl in her enterprise, her keen and watchful eye had early notice the fatal rock, and hers was the mysterious hand by which the two warriors fell, the last being the most intrepid and blood thirsty of the Shawnee tribe, - and the leader of the company which killed her 'mother and her sisters, and took her and her brother prisoners. Now, in the west, arose dark clouds, which soon overspread the whole heavens, and the. elements were rent with the petals of thun der. Darkness, deep and gloomy. shroud ed the whole heavens ; this darkness great ly embarrassed the spies in their Contem plated night escape, supposing that they might readily lose their way, and acciden tally fall on their enemy ; but a short consul tation decided the plan ; it was agreed that the girl should go foremost from her intimate knowledge of localities, awl another might lie gained in ca:" :tumid fall in with any of the parties Fruin knowledge <Atha lunging@ eke might do, IN JUL 19. 18)-1. evive the sentinels, as the sequel proved, for scarcely had they desended a hundred yards. when a low whist from the girl warned them of their daneyr. The spies sun"; silently on the ground, where by previous arrangement, they were to remain till the signal was given by the girl to move on. Iler absense, for the space of a quarter of an hour, began to excite the most serious apprehensions. Again she ap peared, and told "hem that she had succeed ed in removing, two sentinels to a short dis tance, who were directly on their MU Le. The descent was noiselessly resumed, and the spies followed their interpid leader for ha if a mile in the most profound silence, when the barking of a dog at a short dis c nce apprised them of a new danger. The almost simnbaneotis click or the spies' rifles was heard by tin' girl, who stated that they %err , . 1 - I , tv in di.' mi , l4 of the Indian camps, and their liv , s depended on the most pro found stlence,.and implicity following her foot steps. A moment afterwards the girl was accoit ed a squaw. from an opening in her wig wam ; she replied in the Indian language. and, withont stopping, still pressed forward. In a short time she stopped, and assured the spies that the village was cleared, and they had passed the greatest dancer. She knew that every leading pass was ~ . 7ttarded safely by the Indians, and at once resolved to adopt the hell adventure of passing through the centre of the village, as the least hazardous, and the sequel proved the correctness of her judgment. They now steered 11 course for the Ohio river, and after three days travel, arrived safe at the block-house. Their es cape and ailvouures prevented the Indians from amidt their contemplated attack, and the res r, Lid proved to he the sister of the int epid Colonel Washburn, celebrated in the hi-tory of Indian wart - are, and as the renowned spy of Capt. Jbody mochians. Mr. Peregrine ['Milne had none of that horror of widows which so embittered the existence of rho elder. .M rt. IVeller. On the contrary, 'Mr. Potnac tens suspected of a strong partiality for widows—not, however, for widows in general—not for widows in t he deope<t of words and with the scantiest of purses ; wiloos who gave ttinites," and had nothing more to give, would have been pronounced extremely praiseworthy persons ht tlr. Pontac ; he would have a ( - treat re spect Mr their virtues, and :o foli a faith in the con: minty of tin it attachment for the de n.unei! that In' would never have thought. (.n• an ituttint, of sevLitia to weaken its force. The aid nvs in ‘vhoin Mr. Peregrine Pun• t felt the deepest interval. whose acgtiaint ooc. la•cul i voted 010.1( . 5..,1j1y, whose wish . s Lodi. nvorod to toricipato mom galiara .wor.. L tly, r:eil•dres:u!, lively, rich %% El tv.,. oulo, ;13 evory one tvlio last sentence will ailmit.— I le was not in the lea,t degree afraid of the very CLISS :III! sex In whom C3'lll - all ages (hilt what do philo-pith , rs ft now about women ?) have at tributed the i-retitest minavry over all the wiles ‘vhich can pair masenlino ho inaoilY astray. Nlr. IJoninc felt himself a mate!' for any ; and in really wished to malse a mit , cii of the I. had at tained that r.Terrahl.i . perioil of life which commonly calli d middle-aged—a very cla-tie ti•rill, it arty lie remark. ti, as it been to r.A.pri-e till the y-ars be. iw , vri aail -; xty--.) that if that period be really one's life must be c il culated at an average of ninety years. 13ut we will nil Pontac's age. thonizh he would never forgive us if lie knew that we did so--he was fortv-,dx. NI r. Pollute MB a wine-merchant ; and Mr. Pontac had an exceedingly good busi ness. His customers were nearly all people of fortune—private families, and not public houses; for he' was a man of refined. taste, and by no means desirous of a 'connexion with the gin-places and their keepers. He hod amassed a comfortable little fortune, but he did not consider it sufficient to marry on without a corresponding fortune on the part of the. fitly. It was a matter 01 simple aritn metic to Mr. Pontnc.ho ve t went v thousand pounds: or thereabouts," he would say to himself. '.lf I retire front business, as I wish to do, the interest of my money will be seven or eight huodred a-year. As a quiet bachelor that would suffice me ; but as a married man certainly not, 1 must then either remain a bachelor, or marry n fortune, or continue iii business 'Now the first is scarcely respectable in a man of my age ; the first 1 ant tired of: the other alter native is the one--Pil marry a fortune. A young girl is out of the queo.ton- s —ehe would drive me crazy in a mouth. To an old maid I have an antipathy which I cannot get over., A widow is decidedly the person for me." Having by this simple proms of induc tion arrived at this very obvintig conclusion, r. Pontac, like a true man of busim.ss,set about carrying out his intentions. He was not an unpopular man among his negunift• tancits ; on the contrary, bring goad,hurnordd, and obitging, arid having It rotaßies of Widow Hunting. NUMBER 29. habit of malting pretty little acceptable pies ems et favorable moments, he was never omitted from the invitation list of a ball, and seldom forgetten at a dinner—though, o f course, asdinner-tables are less elastic than drawing rooms, bachelors, young and old, or people who don't give dinners, cannot often except to he asked to them, unless they are "lions;" who are excepted to astonish the guests, or professed wits, who invariably make themselves excessively disagreeable. Mr. Pantile, now walked through society with a keen eye for widows. If he were introduced to n "Mrs." anybody, immediate. ly he pricked up his ears, and made the ut most use of his eyes, to discover whether the lady were a widow, whether she were agreeable, whether she looked wealthy.— Diamonds had an Immense attraction for him —point lace never escaped his attention-rich .brocaded silks rustling, told of gold—while a broneham rivetted his attention, and a chariot and pair completely fascinated hiM. Alas ! how rare were widows with all, or any of these things ! The crape cap, bom. , bazin dress class predominated fearfully: not that Mr. Pontac (sad fellow !) believe that All Ouse demurely apparelled ladies were in the extremity of dejection ; but crape caps are less expensive than Brusmds lace and french . flowers ; and bomlyzin dresses i fir less extravagant than moire antiques. ' brocades, and poplins. That was the die: forence, in Mr. Pantile's opinion between the two classes—the bombarins were the widows with "mites," the brocades were the widows with jointures worthy of the name, i 1 And again, he observed, how rare the latter class ! Sometimes he fancied he had marked one down—a real rich widow; but just as h 0 was beginning, to feel exhilarated with hie success, it would turn out that the lady's fortune was only payable so king as she rew maincd a widow. And on this discovery Mr. Pontic would grow irate, and inveigh aminst the baseness, and selfishness, and want of proper feeling on the part of the deceased husband, in placing this infamous limitation to his legacy. He thought a law ought to be passed making such limitations entirely illegal, and giving every widow full permission to marry again; and enjoy her fortune in spite of all the limitations in the world. None of the widows with "mites," by the way, were thus tied up. They. poor souls, had always full permission to marry' again, and continue in possession of their "unites" after doing so. II usbandis who had only finites to leave seemed to be ashamed of putting in the forfeit clause ; but the one, two, or three thousand a-year men scarcely ever omitted it. Shockingly selfish I One day Mr. Pontac was paying a visit to some friends and customers of his own. 6-13 y-the-by, Pontac," Said the host, , ra friend of ours wants some Madeira, and I tank the liberty of mentioning your name. and giving your• address, ns likely to serve her well. I dare say she'll write to you•'' She! thoug.ht Mr. Pontap n widow, no doubt. Drinks Madeira too—rather an ex: pensive wino : good jointure, no Wonder whether there's any confounded limitation it ? Pontac only thought this : he hoWe'd to his friend and thanked him. tShall I call on the lady I' he adted , Wiii. von give ine her address "Certainly," replied his friend. %lane, dear, give Mr. Putnuc one of Mrs. Court'els nay's cards." 'Connell:ly, thought Pontnc ; not a bad name. Siaitids well, at nll events." "Here's the card, ,!r. Pontric," said hit friend's wife, handing hint the slender bit irif pasteboard, on which - was inscribed—.M re. Conrienay, No.—, Hertford Street, May Fair.' Deuced good address, thought Pontee, lw walked away with the crud in his pock.. et determining to cell in Heriford Street the next day, and still wondering whether there would turn out to bo any ' , limitation" in this case. The next day the wine merchant called in Hertford Street, and inquired for Mrao Courtenay. The lady was at home—be sent up his card, and wai admitted. "I must apologise, madam, for the liberty I have taken in calling on you," said Pan. tee, with his best bow— , and it was not a I had one for. a middle-aged wine merchant —.but my friend, Mr. Brown, informed me that you wished for some fine Madeira—. "Pray be, seated, Mr. Pantile," said the lady, interrupting him : "it is very kind of you to take the trouble of calling nn me abtmE so trifling an order as mine will be." Poninc took his seta, end the ice being , thus broken, he exerted himself to make s favorable impression on the Indy. He man aged also to take a survey of the room :anti saw that it was very elegantly (=Med; there was every sign of it complete estab lishment, and one that could not be mliintain• ed without an excellent jointure. With on eye to business,Pontac perstinct• ed the lady to order a great deal more wine than she required, but did it in such a man. Der that she felt quite obliged to him for the interest he evinced in the matter, and hire evident desire to gratify, her taste, , He talk ' ed on a great many.ca her subjects atm ripit Whhf, said M. Cikededy &chief fit,M
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